Third Estate breaks away from Estates-General and establishes itself as National Assembly. Declare themselves representatives of the people.
Queen of France is guillotined.
France took place in this war. Sent significant military help and resources across the Atlantic Ocean.
France is under Louis XVI's monarchy system. There is starvation, war debts and economic chaos.
King Louis XVI summons Estates General for its first meeting since 1914.
National Assembly members (mainly from the third estate) take Tennis Court Oath since King has locked the doors of the Assembly meeting room. Decide not to rest until a Constitution is made and signed.
Parisian citizens move to and take over the Bastille. The Bastille had 7 political prisioners but also a lot of weapons.
French people declare their Declaration of the Rights of Men and of the Citizen.
Peasant (and armed) women march to Versailles to demand the King and Queen to move back to Paris. There was a rumor that Marie Antoinette was hording grain while there was a great food crisis and starvation.
King and Queen move back to Paris and are in house arrest.
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